Linux Tip of the Day - git-standup

Feb 4, 2017

Over on Twitter, @kamranahmedse pointed out to me that git-standup does similar things to git-recall which I recently talked about – and more. First off – thank you! Based on his github account, I’d assume that git-standup is his project and he’s done really nice work here.

In case you missed the previous post on git-recall, git-standup helps you to understand what’s been going on with a codebase by looking at commits either during the same day or a given range of days.

After you change into a directory where you’re working on something git, do this:

git-standup

and you’ll get a view of what happened over the past day. Where git-standup shines over git recall is in its use of command line options to expand beyond the previous day. And here’s an example of looking back over the past 5 days: